Conferences – Looking forward beyond 2016

June 2017 and June 2018. While the above reported ICE 2016 has yet to take place, the 23rd edition in 2017 and 24th edition in 2018 are already getting organized by the respective chairs: Ricardo Goncalves and Guido Baltes and their teams. We look forward meeting them at ICE 2016. The 2017 edition is planned for in Madeira, Portugal whereas the 2018 edition is planned for in Stuttgart, Germany.

June 7-9, 2017, IEEE TEMSCON 2017. The organization is well underway for our own 2017 International Conference of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society, TEMSCON 2017, to be held in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara), California USA. www.temscon.org. The call for papers has been published. The theme is “Innovation and technology management in the entrepreneurial era”, Moving Technical Idea to Market. And we are in the early stages of putting TEMSCON 2018 onto the map. We are calling upon our members to join us in making our flagship conferences a success.

Furhtermore, we are in the early stage of the development of IEEE TEMS conferences in our Region 10, with support of Dilip Kotak, our own Treasurer and Annaswamy Ravikiran, Chair of IEEE Bangalore and Secretary for IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific). Subsequent initial responses from the R10 Industry Relations team and IEEE Bangalore look promising and will be pursued.

As always, for any issues please contact your VP Conferences, Robert Bierwolf through the email address, robert.bierwolf@ieee.org. We also welcome any reports from attendees of our conferences, which is your opportunity to share your observations with your peers. And of course we welcome any support in organizing these.